Message 127792 - Python tracker

Message127792

Author	pitrou
Recipients	kristjan.jonsson, mark.dickinson, pitrou, scoder
Date	2011-02-03.13:32:50
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> I find it interesting that the base line is way below the other > timings. That makes me think it's actually worth caching constant > slice instances, as CPython already does for tuples. Indeed. I have never touched it, but I suppose it needs an upgrade of the marshal format to support slices. (of course, this will not help for other common cases such as l[x:x+2]).

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> I find it interesting that the base line is way below the other
> timings. That makes me think it's actually worth caching constant
> slice instances, as CPython already does for tuples.

Indeed. I have never touched it, but I suppose it needs an upgrade of
the marshal format to support slices.
(of course, this will not help for other common cases such as l[x:x+2]).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-03 13:32:51	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, mark.dickinson, scoder, kristjan.jonsson
2011-02-03 13:32:50	pitrou	link	issue10227 messages
2011-02-03 13:32:50	pitrou	create